The assessments we conduct provide people with a good idea
of how fit and healthy they are. What's unique about our assessments is that
we make an assessment of a number of health risk indicators.
If people know what sort of shape they are in they can
make choices about improving their health and lowering the risk of a host of
body system dysfunctions. Low levels of physical activity, poor diet and an
inability to manage the stresses of life and work are contributing to an
epidemic of avoidable body system, dysfunctions.
40 odd years ago, John F Kennedy said that 'the softening
process of our civilization continues its persistent erosion'. This would
have to be the understatement of the 20th century.
What's interesting about it is that many people seem ignorant
of the fact that the health of key body systems is gradually being
compromised by their lifestyle. They don't attribute their headaches, lack
of energy, high blood pressure or back pain to what they're doing too little
of or what they're doing too much of.
They don't realize that the symptoms of dysfunction usually
are not apparent until dysfunction has well and truly set in. They don't
recognize the small signs, preferring to 'leave it to chance' that nothing
catastrophic will happen to them.
Our approach to individual and collective health is based on
this faint hope that nothing is going to break down - and if it does, modern
medicine will come to the rescue and an employer or the government will foot
the bill. What sort of a fraud is that?
